Ian wrote:
> I'm trying to share data between LabVIEW v6.0 and another program (16
> bit), both running on Windows95. At first DLL's seemed to be the
> answer but I would need to call 16 bit DLL's which I understand can be
> a problem. With my limited knowledge of C++ I've written a program
> (Borland C++4.2) which can access the data I need and save it to a
> file, this is then repeatedly read by LabVIEW, crude but it works.
> When I add code to do the same the other way I get occasional file
> sharing errors. I can't get either LabVIEW or C++ to trap these
> errors. As an alternative I thought I could write and read to a
> reserved portion of memory (less than 1K should be enough) using in
> port and out port. Is this viable, and if so how do I reserve the
> memory in Windows 95 so that LabVIEW & my C++ program can access it?
>
> Any suggestions?
May be TCP/IP or UDP interprocess communication will do? It shouldn't be
a problem via localhost. You can try separate VI server to handle
communication task from your vi with C++ socket.
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Sergey Krasnishov
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Automated Control Systems
National Instruments Alliance Member
Moscow, Russia
sergey_acs@levsha.ru
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